This September, a new, internationally recognised programme was added to BME’s training portfolio: The Institute of Nuclear Techniques (NTI) and several departments of the BME’s Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (GTK) now jointly offer a new, four-semester postgraduate nuclear technology management programme training specialist engineers and other specialists.

This programme is designed to provide further training for professionals who already work in the nuclear industry but wish to improve their technology and/or management/leadership skills or for people who are contemplating a career in the nuclear sector.

The nuclear technology management programme of the BME, which offers a combination of nuclear technology and management/leadership skills, was developed in full compliance with the recommendations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2019 and 2020. There are only a handful of other universities in the world that have implemented the IAEA’s programme and BME is the seventh university whose programme has been endorsed by the IAEA, which improves the national and international reputation of degrees obtained here.

This programme offers a favourable combination of the BME’s reactor technology engineering programme, which has a long history, and the popular management training programme, the MBA. Technical and nuclear subjects are taught by the NTI’s senior lecturers while managerial subjects are taught by lecturers of the GTK, which has a long tradition in MBA training, and a number of experienced industry professionals are also involved. 

In the study period, students have technology and management classes on Friday and Saturday respectively and also process case studies demonstrating the use of management skills in nuclear industry practice. Students who wish to obtain an MBA degree later will be able to have some of the credits collected in their nuclear technology management programme recognised in a future MBA programme. Every semester, students have 144 contact lessons in total and improve their technical and atomic energy knowledge and learn management, leadership and corporate competencies through numerous project assignments, home assignments, workplace exercises, teamwork and other innovative teaching solutions.

Source: BME.hu
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